After watching the Indy game, Not worried, at all.

[ScoobyDoo]

Until I watched the Indy game I was worried reading all the bad posts.

Now that I've watched it, not worried, at all.

It'a clear we are just out of synch with each other. This happened in '08 and in '09 3-4 times each year. It's like we're throwing the ball off each other's knees, dribbling off our feet, clanking shots.

It's no big deal. I've seen this before, these guys will be fine.

I also forget to take into consideration, we have three new guys ( Rasheed, Marquis and Sheldon) who have never played together or with our first unit.

Once we iron these things out and get Baby back in there for extra muscle with Perk and Sheldon, we will be just fine.

In fact, we will be every bit as scary as everyone thought we would be at the start of the season.

It's not age, it's funk. Doc said the same and I believe it after weatching them.

We will be very, very, very scary once they get synched up together.   

[vinnie]

How does a team get into a funk 11 games into the season?

[LB3533]

I thought we were already pretty much "in sync" up until the Hawks game.

[ScoobyDoo]

1. A little bit of Doc playing the wrong match ups...

2. A little bit of fatigue with the early rush of games and back to back against young athletic teams ( look at Jeff's article, this is mentioned there)

3. And a little bit of just collecctive clumsiness on the court.

I've played ball my whole life.

There are some days you just cannot get yourself coordinated out there.
You lose control of the ball on the dribble
You trip and fall
Your shot rolls off the bottom of your palm on a layup and you miss it
You shoot an airball..
You grab a board, fumble the ball off your knee.

Other days, everything goes right. Most days are tolerable.

Watch the game again and see how many times these guys fumbled the ball on a simple pass from Perk to Rondo or Pierce. Or House to Wallace, all of them.

Completely clumsy.

They did this exact same thing two seasons ago ( lost to Charlotte and twice to Washington within a 5 game stretch.

They ahd a game or three like this Indy game last season to where they just completely looked out of it.

Not worried at all from a skill and depth side, We have three new players mixing in as well and with the right early match ups that will show itself to more of a problem with execution in tighter games than in blowouts.